Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-05-05

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April is estimated at $12,0O0,OO0 to $15,
100000.
The secretary Of the interior has re-
quested the Attorney General to institute
suits against parties in various sections
of the country charged with unlawfully
removing timber from the public do
main.
GEORGE Gray, attorney for the North
ern Pacific Road, is advised that the Can
adian Pacific has commenced to carry
sugar from the Pacific coast to ST. Paul
at much lower rates than those which
prevailed on our transcontinental lines
prior to the order of suspension of Sat
urday last.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY MYNARD has in
formed customs officers that imported
Or reimported liquors withdrawn for
consumption, after having been ware
housed, are subject to duty on the guam
tity entsred for warehouse and not on
that ascertained o withdrawal for con-
sumption.
TIE act passed by the last Congress il
creasing the annual appropriation for sup
plying arms and equipment to the militia
provides in its second section that the
distribution to the Territories and Dis
trict of columbia shall be made under
such regulations and in such proportions
as the President may prescribe.
COMMISSIONER SPARKS is authority for
the statement that none Of the orders by
which lands were originally withdrawn
for indemnity purposes have been re-
voked on the records of the Land Office,
although not more than one-half of the
land originally withdrawn for indemnity
purposes is still subject to the demands
of the railroads.
CHARLES M. HILL, secretary of the
Philadelphia Wool Merchants Associa-
ton writes inclosing copy of resolu..
ton of the association protesting against
the suspension of the long and short haul
for the Pacific roads. In it's preamble
the document recitss that the rates from
San Francisco to the East have been
from so to 81 cents per 100 pounds, while
from many nearer points it has been
from So to $3.50.
Doggie's Shrewdness
Ansonia Sentinel.
Speaking of cats and dogs, DAYTON, the
Birmingham shoe man, comes to the front
with curious story, illustrative by the
amin ais lower than man of considerable
degree of reasoning power. Two pets,
the one cat and the other a dog, we're
on unusually good terms, and were always
fed their milk from little dishes placed
side by side. Doggie, with his tongue,
of course got outside of his apportion-
ment in much less time then could kittie
with her little lapper. Why the milk of
his little friend lasted SO much longer
than did his own, doggie evidently could
not understand; and the more he thought
Of it the more irksome became the pro
cess of the feline finish. He knew trick
or two, however, and he would see about
this milk business.
One morning, the two were fed as u.s.
ual, and doggie Tapped up his quota be-
fore kittie had scarcely begun. The milk
that morning, looked very tenn pting, and
he must have it some how. So stepping
up quietly, he took the cat by the nape
of the neck and dragged her ABOUT forty
rods away and into the dewwet grass of
the meadow, where he dopped and left
her to pick her way home at best she
could without wetting her feet, while he
scampered back over the fences and by
the shortest cut to lap up the kittens
milk. MIR. D. says that the cat was re-
latively so large that the little dog had to
hold his head very high in order to keep
her four paws from the ground, which
was very comical. The thing worked so
we'll that it became to be regular morn
ing performance that was quite enter
tanning to all whD witnessed it. Next!